[spetznaz]

It has been said that the 19th century was Great Britain's, the 20th America's, and that the 21st will be China's.

[waterstraat]

Actually, china was one of the most powerful and most advanced countries in the world in the late 1700's, dont underestimate what china can do with a billion people, and lots of high tech, lots of money, and state of the art factories.